Effective April 1, 2008, eBay opened the doors to their new in-house affiliate program. Previously, the eBay affiliate program had been managed by Commission Junction (CJ) with all link tracking performed by eBay. That’s what all those canine sounding affiliate links were about:
“rover”
A transition period has been in effect during the entire month of April, where eBay affiliate links for both CJ and ePN would be active. As an added incentive for early migration to ePN, eBay is offering an extra 5% on commissions generated during April.
I’m taking a hiatus from posting about Adwords and Google Slaps for a bit. I am still very much involved with running Adwords campaigns for various offers and have even started doing a little SEM consulting. So Adwords PPC is still very much at the core of what I do online.
However, so as not to have all my eggs in the same proverbial basket, I also need to get back to what got me here in the first place, which is article marketing and organic traffic generation methods.
During the Prohibition Era in America when alcohol was illegal, there were underground nightclubs and watering holes referred to as “speakeasys“. Old newsreel footage from the period would show well-dressed men and women knocking on a door in a seedy back alley that had a special peep hole built in to it. A pair of menacing looking eyes would then peer back from behind the sliding peep hole to check out the visitors. Once it had been determined that they were not police or other undesirables, the door would swing open to reveal a wild party raging on the other side.
I joined “PPC Classroom” on the day it launched – September 25, 2007. I can easily remember that date because it’s my dad’s birthday, but anyway, I was sitting in front of my PC refreshing the sales page in order to qualify for the “fast action bonus”.
I’ve waited until now to write up a full review of PPCC in order to let all of the dust settle. And there has been quite a bit of dust to be settling.
Well, the numbers are finally in and the US retail sector had its worst holiday season in 5 years. Economists had been predicting this even before the 2007 holiday shopping season kicked into gear. Actually, anyone paying any attention at all to the dire economic news — sub-prime mortgage mess, turmoil in the credit markets, and ever rising food and energy prices, could have seen this coming from way off
It was only a matter of time before the US consumer started putting a clamp on spending.
